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Explore the lives, works and musical worlds of the composers who shaped classical music, from the Renaissance to the twentieth century.

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50 Featured Composers

A selection of 50 essential figures in classical music history, from the early Baroque to the twentieth century, with access to biographies, works, recordings, documents, bibliography and chronologies.

Composers

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50 Featured Composers

Ludwig van Beethoven

Johann Sebastian Bach

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Franz Schubert

Johannes Brahms

Richard Wagner

Gustav Mahler

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Giuseppe Verdi

Frédéric Chopin

Anton Bruckner

George Frideric Handel

Claude Debussy

Richard Strauss

Antonín Dvořák

Robert Schumann

Igor Stravinsky

Antonio Vivaldi

Felix Mendelssohn

Hector Berlioz

Sergei Rachmaninoff

Jean Sibelius

Maurice Ravel

Franz Liszt

Joseph Haydn

Giacomo Puccini

Gioachino Rossini

Sergei Prokofiev

Dmitri Shostakovich

Claudio Monteverdi

Béla Bartók

Camille Saint-Saëns

Edvard Grieg

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Modest Mussorgsky

Bedřich Smetana

Carl Maria von Weber

Edward Elgar

Gabriel Fauré

Leoš Janáček

Alexander Glazunov

Henry Purcell

Christoph Willibald Gluck

Arcangelo Corelli

Domenico Scarlatti

Georg Philipp Telemann

Jean-Philippe Rameau

Alexander Scriabin

Jean-Baptiste Lully

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach